web gardens and memory

Looking for some guidance on web gardens. I see iis lets me set the worker
processes to what ever I want. It if set it too high it actually hurts me
because I overwhelms the memory and cpu.

Is there a general guideline about how much memory should be available after
all the worker processes are runningâ?¦or is using up all the physical memory
except for 50 megs or so a good way to run and utilize memory resources?

Thanks

wjzhang
Mon Apr 02 08:30:26 CDT 2007

Hi Jason,

Before estimate the memory usage of web garden, you'd first estimate the
max number of concurrent worker processes will be hosted on the server.
Then evaluate the approximate memory usage per w3wp.exe process based on
the actual web application. The information in below whitepaper will be of
some help:

Configuring Application Isolation on Windows Server 2003 and Internet
Information Services (IIS) 6.0
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/
webapp/iis/appisoa.mspx#EGAA

Below are some related links:

You may receive the "System.OutOfMemoryException" error message when you
view ASP.NET pages on a server that has 3 gigabytes of RAM
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/820108

How to use the /userva switch with the /3GB switch to tune the User-mode
space to a value between 2 GB and 3 GB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316739

Large memory support is available in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283037

Thanks.

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Wed Apr 04 05:29:59 CDT 2007

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Fri Apr 06 04:35:20 CDT 2007

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jason
Mon Apr 09 07:58:02 CDT 2007

I found an MS document saying that there should be a least 20% of memory
available when all process are running.

""WenJun Zhang[msft]"" wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> I have not yet heard back from you and I was just writing to see if you
> need further assistance. If so, please do not hesitate to let us know and
> we will be happy to help.
>
> If I don't hear back from you, I will assume that everything is going well,
> and you do not need further assistance on this issue. Therefore I will go
> ahead and archive this thread at this time. If you need our help to
> continue troubleshooting, please do not hesitate to respond to the
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> Thanks for using our newsgroups!
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> Sincerely,
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> WenJun Zhang
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wjzhang
Wed Apr 11 05:00:13 CDT 2007

Hi Jason,

Glad to hear that. If you have any further question, please post here and
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wjzhang
Fri Apr 13 05:01:02 CDT 2007

Hi Jason,

I haven't heard back from you yet. I am just writing to see how everything
is going. I would appreciate if you could get back to me at your earliest
convenience.

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a note.

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